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…but I’ll let that slide for a second. We saw ourselves as soldiers, and all soldiers consider the costs of war to be necessary. The justification for revolutionary wars is to stop a larger violence, the violence of the system. In Vietnam, our government was murdering millions of people (3-5 million, according to the American Friends Service Committee). When you’re in despair, as I was, it’s not easy to know what the exact right…

…nown unknowns” and a “war like none other our nation has faced.” In a 2001 op-ed article entitled “A New Kind of War,” Rumsfeld wrote, “Even the vocabulary of this war will be different. When we ‘invade the enemy’s territory,’ we may well be invading his cyberspace … Forget about ‘exit strategies’; we’re looking at a sustained engagement that carries no deadlines … ‘Battles’ will be fought by customs officers.” Suddenly, it seemed sustained milit…

…Such expenditure of blood and treasure has brought the U.S. neither peace nor peace of mind. The reason is that war is an impractical instrument for use in the fight against terrorists. Audrey Cronin, Professor of Strategy at the U.S. National War College, writes in her book How Terrorism Ends that “There is no reason to believe that the application of even more overwhelming military force, even if it were available, would end the al-Qaeda…

…epublicans allege a Democratic “War on Religion” and now this “War on Coal”. In the American context, there is a War on Terror, a War in Afghanistan, and a War on Drugs…but that is it. There is no “war” being waged against women, religion, or coal. Labeling the policies and ideologies of the other side (which, as noted above, is one of the few bipartisan efforts) as a “war” is not only untrue and condemnably venomous but it also devalues the wars…

…n separatists declared control of NK and parts of Azerbaijan. By this point, Armenia and Azerbaijan were in open war. As the Soviet Union broke up, many garrisoned Soviet troops, left without pay and no way to return home, sold off their equipment to both sides. During the course of the war, Armenian and NK forces pushed the Azerbaijani Army out of territory west and south of the enclave. Later Azerbaijani counteroffensives took some of the terri…

by As the U.S. efforts in Afghanistan continue, one hears pundits muttering about how the Afghan War is arguably the longest war in the history of the United States. Whether it’s actually true or not, one thing is for certain, and that’s that this war has gone on for far too long—nine years after the first invasion, and yet we’re still in combat mode? Something must be wrong. And something absolutely is. Last week it was reported that…

…not ease the burden of the bases on the Okinawans. To some, Okinawa is a ghostly reminder of the devastations of war. “Just looking at these pictures terrifies me,” an old woman said, partly to herself, while looking at a photo of a wounded Okinawan child at an exhibition in Naha City. “War is terrifying. Terrifying.” She repeated this for a while and sat down on a chair nearby, exhausted. Her occupation was to tell war stories to youths like me….

…d as aggression or expansionism, then Western involvement in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghan Wars must also be labeled as such. Furthermore, whereas the Warsaw Pact substantiated a Soviet response, the West had no such concrete legal justification for its interventions. To be clear, I am not defending the atrocities that occurred in Hungary. I am identifying factors contributing to a Russian foreign policy, guided by historica…

by The relative peace that has followed the Korean War ended with an explosion in March of last year, when North Korea torpedoed a South Korean naval ship. Eight months later, the North Korean military shelled a South Korean island on the border, claiming four lives. These attacks prompted discussions of war between the two nations for the first time in almost fifty years, a war that would inevitably involve the 28,000 US soldiers sta…